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By John Helmer, Moscow
@bears_with [2]
April 25, ANZAC Day, is a national celebration in Australia commemorating the World War 1 campaign, ordered by Winston Churchill in London, for Australian and New Zealand (NZ) forces to land at Gallipoli, and attempt to march on the Ottoman Empire capital at Istanbul [3].
It has become the equivalent of Memorial Day in the US, which comes a month later. Like the American commemoration, for Australians and New Zealanders it is now meant to celebrate all the wars they have fought. Very recently, the ceremonies include a “Welcome to Country” speech by a tribal elder of the Australian indigenous peoples. They were not allowed to serve in the Australian forces until the numbers of willing whites were beginning to run low in 1917.
ANZAC stood for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. That wasn’t a combination of armies of two independent states. It was a single unit of two colonial divisions formed in December 1914 and commanded by a British general, William Birdwood, with his staff of officers from the British Indian Army [4].
This was an empire operation: Australia was a self-governing dominion of British colonies in 1901; New Zealand the same in 1907. However, they remained under British constitutional, legal, military, and secret service control until the Japanese Army forced the surrender of the British at Singapore in 1942 and headed southward.
Japan did more for Australian and New Zealand independence than the anti-imperialism of Australians and New Zealanders. By contrast, the Indians, fifteen thousand of whom were landed with the Anzacs [5], successfully fought the British to achieve their independence in 1947; Australia and New Zealand followed with legislation of 1986 and 1983, respectively [6]. By then, however, CIA penetration of both ruling elites had succeeded in replacing the overt British Empire with a subvert US Empire. And so it is today, with a Zionist twist.
The 1915 ANZAC operation was a total failure, ending in ignominious retreat.
Not only did the Turks drive the Allies off with one of the gravest campaign tolls of the war; estimated numbers of dead and wounded were almost 350,000 – slightly more than half on the Allied side. The Turks then began the genocide of the Armenian population, killing more than 1.5 million civilians; they followed that with attacks on the Greeks.
The Australian casualty rate was about 15% dead; the comparable NZ death rate was 19%; the Indian casualty rate, 10%; the British rate (including Irish and Newfoundlanders) was 12% [7].
The Turkish retelling of the history omits that the principal forces which defended the heights and took the greatest casualties were conscripted Arabs from Syria and Iraq and Kurds from Mosul. Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk), then commander of the Ottoman 19th Division at the front, held his Turkish infantry and cavalry in reserve to defend the northward road to Istanbul [8]. The death rate for these Arab soldiers was at least 27%, probably higher [7].
Since 1996, and with government authorization since 2006, descendants of the Ottomans who fought and defeated the Australians have been allowed to march alongside the Australian veterans through the Australian cities. Note that in the state press corporation report of 2006, these soldiers are described as “Turkish”, not as Arabs [9].
Australia is now permanently at war with the Arabs and Muslims with a Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, appointed from the Jewish community by the federal government to represent the opinions of 120,000 Australian Jews in an attack on the opinions of 815,000 Australian Muslims. Together with a Royal Commission currently under way to recommend criminalizing the second group’s defence against the first, Australia is adopting the ideology of race-hate fascism to advance its domestic, intercommunal warmaking and its foreign warmaking (against Russia, China, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc.).
THE ADVANCE OF AUSTRALIAN FASCISM FAIR
[10]This series of books, published in the US but banned by Australian publishers, bookstores and media, chronicles the rise of fascism in the Australian law courts from 2021 until today: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VFV4ZGK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=john+helmer%2C+hitler+didn%27t+die&qid=1612213757&s=books&sr=1-1 [11] then [12] and in March [13]of this year. Read more of what is soon to become criminal expression in Australia: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/jillian-segals-report-turns-criticism-of-israel-into-a-punishable-offence,20078 [14]
Many years ago, in Moscow, I objected to the decision of the Australian and NZ ambassadors, then Ruth Pearce and John Larkindale, under joint orders from their governments, to invite the Turkish representative in Russia to give a speech at the annual ANZAC Day ceremony at St. Andrews Anglican Church. When he left his seat in the official pew and began to speak, I walked out. This is what happened and why; click to read [15].
[16]Source: https://johnhelmer.net/australia-and-new-zealand-bark-twenty-years-after-the-turkish-caravan-moved-on/ [15] Ruth Pearce, now retired, has told [17]an interviewer that her grandfather had been a World War I veteran who used to tell her “wonderful romantic stories about the War”.
Twenty-seven years after that story, at this year’s ceremonies in Sydney and Melbourne, there were open displays of heckling and booing of the Australian aboriginal speaker [18].
Death in aid of empire wars abroad always brings the wars home to the domestic celebration of more killing. When that becomes explicitly genocidal, then Australia’s alliance with the US and Israel in the Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, also comes home. This is how [19].
[20]Source: https://johnhelmer.net/the-bondi-strike-who-will-control-the-narrative/ [19]
FOOTNOTE: Russian forces did not join the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli, but the Tsar’s supreme commander, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, and General Nikolai Yudenich initiated the Gallipoli campaign plan in January 1915 with a request to the British for naval and land attacks to force the Dardanelles Strait and draw Turkish forces south from their Caucasus front with Russia. The following maps illustrate the double strait-forcing strategy to relieve the Russian fleet inside the Black Sea and reinforce the Russian army against the Germans.
[21]Click for more detail of the Turkish intelligence on the strait-forcing strategy and their counter-measures: https://warhistory.org/article/turkish-expectations-of-the-allied-landings [22]
If this sounds similar to the Trump strategy to force the Hormuz Strait and defeat the Iranians, it should.